[EXTERN kmain] ; kmain is defined in kmain.c [GLOBAL loader] ; making entry point visible to linker [GLOBAL kernel_pagedir] ; make kernel page directory visible ; higher-half kernel setup K_HIGHHALF_ADDR equ 0xC0000000 K_PAGE_NUMBER equ (K_HIGHHALF_ADDR >> 22) ; loader stack size LOADER_STACK_SIZE equ 0x8000 ; 8Kb ; setting up the Multiboot header - see GRUB docs for details MODULEALIGN equ 1<<0 ; align loaded modules on page boundaries MEMINFO equ 1<<1 ; provide memory map FLAGS equ MODULEALIGN | MEMINFO ; this is the Multiboot 'flag' field MAGIC equ 0x1BADB002 ; 'magic number' lets bootloader find the header CHECKSUM equ -(MAGIC + FLAGS) ; checksum required [section .setup] align 4 multiboot_header: dd MAGIC dd FLAGS dd CHECKSUM loader: ; setup the boot page directory used for higher-half mov ecx, kernel_pagedir sub ecx, K_HIGHHALF_ADDR ; access its lower-half address mov cr3, ecx ; Set PSE bit in CR4 to enable 4MB pages. mov ecx, cr4 or ecx, 0x00000010 mov cr4, ecx ; Set PG bit in CR0 to enable paging. mov ecx, cr0 or ecx, 0x80000000 mov cr0, ecx ; long jump required lea ecx, [higherhalf] jmp ecx [section .data] align 0x1000 kernel_pagedir: ; uses 4MB pages ; identity-maps the first 4Mb of RAM, and also maps them with offset += k_highhalf_addr dd 0x00000083 times (K_PAGE_NUMBER - 1) dd 0 dd 0x00000083 times (1024 - K_PAGE_NUMBER - 1) dd 0 [section .text] higherhalf: ; now we're running in higher half ; unmap first 4Mb mov dword [kernel_pagedir], 0 invlpg [0] mov esp, stack_top ; set up the stack push eax ; pass Multiboot magic number add ebx, K_HIGHHALF_ADDR ; update the MB info structure so that it is in higher half push ebx ; pass Multiboot info structure call kmain ; call kernel proper hang: ; halt machine should kernel return cli hlt jmp hang [section .bss] align 4 stack_bottom: resb LOADER_STACK_SIZE stack_top: ; vim: set ts=4 sw=4 tw=0 noet :